CTK-Hackfest-Jul-2012

Event pictures

Images from the last hackfest:

Hacking is important work!

Checking out the demos

Remarkable progress in Nice

Introduction

Note: this page is a work in progress -- some information subject to change

Date: July 9-13, 2012

Location: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA

Goal: A follow on to the wildly successful previous hackfests!

Requirements: Attendees must be willing to spend their time during the event writing ctk code that contributes to the main ctk roadmap. This means spending the week immersed in C++, Qt, DCMTK, CMake, and related technologies. People who do not feel qualified for this task are politely not invited :)

Group size: Maximum 20 participants so we can have a manageable working meeting. The organizing committee will invite and select participants based on input from TheTeam.

Site Hosts: Steve Pieper and Ron Kikinis

Organizing Committee: Ivo Wolf, Stephen Aylward, Steve Pieper

Future Events: Future hackfests will be announced in advance, and we hope lots of people will be interested in participating. The venue and activities at future hackfests will be determined based on the number of active participants in the project. We welcome participation via the CTK email lists, the source code repository, and this website.

Attendees

• So far we have received confirmation for the following people (in no particular order). Please fill in your intentions in terms of common accommodation.

Participants

Name	Organization
Jean-Chistophe Fillion-Robin	Kitware
Julien Finet	Kitware
Stephen Aylward	Kitware
Steve Pieper	Isomics
Ivo Wolf	Hochschule Mannheim
Marco Nolden	DKFZ, Heidelberg
Sascha Zelzer	DKFZ, Heidelberg
Florian Vichot	INRIA
Daniele Giunchi	SCS, Bologna
André Aichert	University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Note: There were also other invitations sent to active people on the community, and people who recently showed interest. When their intent will be known they will be added to the list.

Preparation

Developers should bring a laptop with the current CTK source code downloaded and built.

Use the CTK developers mailing list to discuss build issues and topics for ongoing work.

Phone conferences have been scheduled in the weeks leading to the event:

• To be announced

Topics and Projects

Roadmap development

• As needed, refine the roadmap for the CTK core.

DICOM Application Hosting

• Refine, extend, test, and integrate with applications
• See also (some still open) tasks and progress from the last hackfest

DICOM Networking

• Dig into ongoing developments. See CtkDICOM for discussion.

• See ctkDICOM in Slicer4 for information on a particular application use case.

Widgets

• Discuss and refine as needed.

Build Systems & Software process

• Update PythonQt dependency so that CTK can build against Qt 4.8

• Setup developer package

• Talk with Dominique (Debian packager) to understand what is missing

• Generalize documentation of CMake macro so that it can be-used

Agenda

Monday

Start at 9:00am

Friday

Tour of AMIGO. End by 5:00pm

Travel & Hotel

Local contact

• If you have any troubles during your visit, call Steve: +1 617 596 2719

Airport

• Boston Logan (BOS)

Transportation on Site

Google's public transit search works well in Boston. The site is about 5 blocks from subway stops and busses. Parking on-site is $10-$15 per day. Cabs are fairly convenient for most trips (perhaps $40 to/from the airport).

Lodging

There are a lot of hotel options in Boston - several within easy walking distance of the 1249 Boylston facility and everything is accessible by public transport. Note that on Sunday night before the hackfest there is a big baseball game in the neighborhood (at Fenway Park) so hotels may be more expensive the first night, but should be cheaper the rest of the week.

• Closest, cheapest, but least nice:

Howard Johnsons 1271 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02215 (800) 446-4656 howardjohnsonboston.com‎

• Not too far - mid price:

Boston Hotel Buckminster 645 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 (800) 727-2825 bostonhotelbuckminster.com‎

• Not too far - higher price:

Hotel Commonwealth 500 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 (617) 933-5000 hotelcommonwealth.com‎

Meeting Location

• BWH Surgical Planning Laboratory 1249 Boylston Street.

Catering

• To be determined.

Weather

• Probably pretty hot and humid...